The Big Bang

Express Tribune: 22 June, 2015 == 4 Ramazan 1436

Expanded and revised Version to address a Muslim audience, and published in the Intellect Magazine.

Full Fledged Physicist version provides a deep extension of this argument

Is there design in the creation of the universe, or did we come into being due to a cosmic accident? So much hinges on the answer that only ostriches would refuse to face it. If we were created by a random evolutionary process following a chance combination of atoms in a primordial soup, then our lives have no meaning. We live in a cold and callous universe, and all our struggles, passions, sacrifice, and devotion make no difference in the end. Contemplating the ultimate futility of all human effort, Bertrand Russell, one of the founding fathers of atheism as a philosophy, said that “only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.”

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